Joe Swafford

Court of Appeals has ruled that conspiracy convictions against former Broadway Home and Garden Center owner Joe Swafford should be thrown out.
Swafford was sentenced to 30 years in prison by Judge Curtis Collier in June 2006 for supplying a key ingredient to meth dealers.
The appeals court said 38 convictions against Swafford must be merged into 19 cases and he is to be resentenced.
Swafford was 62 at the time of his sentencing. His former business on South Broad Street has since been sold by the Marshal's Service.
At tht sentencing, Judge Collier said Swafford was the leading iodine supplier to meth dealers in Tennessee and several other states.
Judge Collier said over several years Swafford supplied enough iodine to produce meth "for every man, woman and child in Southeast Tennessee and several surrounding counties."